Miss Alabama Katherine Webb says Brent Musburger isn't creepy (video)

Katherine Webb, also known as Miss Alabama 2012, says she wasn't creeped out by 73-year-old sportscaster Brent Musburger ogling her during college football's national championship game on Monday.

We're pretty sure she's in the minority on that one.

Webb, 23, is the girlfriend of Alabama star quarterback A.J. McCarron and, yes, a beauty pageant winner. Toward the end of the first quarter, with Alabama already up 14-0, a shot of Webb popped up on the TV screen. And Musburger pretty much forgot there was a football game happening in front of him.

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"Wow, I'm telling you. You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women," Musburger said to fellow announcer Kirk Herbstreit. "So, if you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting a football out and throw it around the backyard with Pops! What a beautiful woman. Wow."

Don't the old guys always throw footballs around the back yard in those Viagra commercials?

The cameras later made their way to Webb when the score became 28-0 and, sure enough, at the end of the game.

"There is Miss Alabama, with the victory kiss," Musburger said.

Reaction on Twitter and elsewhere made it clear that plenty of viewers found Musburger's remarks inappropriate.

Webb apparently didn't mind the attention.

"It was kind of nice," she told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "I didn't look at it as creepy at all. For a woman to be called beautiful, I don't see how that's an issue."

Right. Until Brent Musburger shows up in the bushes outside your house.

Webb said that during the game, her iPhone was dead, but several friends seated nearby showed her what was happening on Twitter and pointed out that pictures of her were being shown on TV.

"I just couldn't believe it," she said. "I was just in complete surprise."

Dee Dee Bonner, McCarron's mother, said the two laughed in the stands as Webb's Twitter count grew.

As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, Webb had topped 163,000 Twitter followers, trumping boyfriend McCarron's 110,000. Before the game, Webb -- who graduated with a business degree from longtime Alabama rival Auburn University in 2011, according to her pageant biography -- reportedly had about 2,000.

After carefully weighing the winds of public opinion -- never mind that it was their producers who wouldn't stop showing Webb on camera -- ESPN released a statement Tuesday, saying, "We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that."

No he doesn't.

Webb earlier told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that she first encountered McCarron on Twitter, and they met in early December when he attended the Miss Alabama USA pageant in Montgomery. The two visited over the holidays and publicly confirmed their romance right before the New Year.

Webb's pageant biography says she was born in Montgomery and worked for Chick-fil-A as a training director in Columbus, Ga., before moving to Los Angeles to pursue modeling. She finished in the top 10 in the national pageant.

Bonner said Webb is considering moving back to Alabama to be with the quarterback.